How about "facing your partner" instead of "looking at your partner"?
Then it's just an orientation. Who or what you look at is your own choice. The girls will figure out pretty quickly to look at each other to start the move, and skilled flirts will figure out other possibilities a split second later. M E On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jeff Kaufman <[email protected]>wrote: > Barbara Groh wrote: > > > > >I prefer to catch the eye of the other lady in a "girl-power, isn't this > > >fun" way, since we usually start the move by passing by each other, then > > >quickly shift to my partner and smile - so much more community-friendly, > > >even flirtatious, IMHO, than the "I can't take my eyes off you" stare > with > > >a > > >person who is, after all, usually not someone I...can't take my eyes > off. > > > > > >What do the rest of you think? > > > > I think you've made an excellent point, but the trick would be explaining > > all that in a walk-through without losing 3/4 of the room. Can anyone > > think of a really succinct way of teaching that? > > > > I think all you need to do is not put strong emphasis on the looking > at your partner aspect. Something like: "dosido your neighbor. Now > dosido your neighbor again, but time do it while looking at your > partner." A simple "while looking at your partner" takes no stand on > whether one should stare at one's partner to the exclusion of everyone > else in the world, and I think no stand is needed. > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > -- For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
